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Conus (Gastropoda, Conidae) from the Marquesas Archipelago: Description of a new endemic offshore fauna

Journal

Vita Malacologica

Volume | Issue number

6

Pages (from-to)

19-33

Document type

Article

Faculty

Faculty of Science (FNWI)

Abstract

Based on surveys conducted in the 1980s-1990s, especially the MUSORSTOM 9 expedition, we report on the bathymetric occurences
of 35 species of Conus in the Marquesas Archipelago. Four are new records of shallow-water tropical Indo-Pacific species,
and six are new species that were dredged, essentially from depths between 100 and 400 meters. The species classically found
in deep water elsewhere in the South Pacific are strikingly absent from the Marquesas, and the local deep-water faunule is
thus highly endemic. This study confirms the Marquesas as a biogeographically outstanding archipelago, with a rather poor,
but unique, benthic fauna.New species: Conus tiki spec. nov., C. dieteri spec. nov., C. pepeiu spec. nov., C. troendlei
spec. nov., C. hivanus spec. nov. and C. pseudimperialis spec. nov.

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